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AUSTRALIAN PROMOTERS TRYING TO CORNER
AMERICAN FIGHT MARKET
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 10.
Eager to get a batch of American
boxers to visit the Antipodes, two
Australian fight fight promoters land
ed here two hours apart recently,
ending a neck and neck race across
the Pacific.
They are "Mother" Wm. J. Howe,
THIS AMERICAN PEERESS WILL
REALIZE PET AMBITIONS
London. The Marchioness
of Dufferin will make her debut in
opera at Covent Garden soon.
She was formerly Miss Flora Davis
of New York. When she married the
Marquis in 1893, she had two ambi
tions. One was to be a successful wife
and mother. The other was to make a
success in a musical career.
She has brought up -three daugh
ters well beyond the nursery days,
proving her success as a mother. Now
she is ready to try her ability to rea
lize the second ambition.
famed as a football expert as well as
a fight fan, and "Snowy" Reginald
Baker, representing Hugh Mcintosh.
Howe represents a' syndicate form
ed recently to buck the Australian
boxing trust, dominated by Mcintosh,
and will do his best to sign the high
class boxers for his club. He arrived
about two hours ahead of Baker and
got a lead on his competitor by sign
ing up Arthur Pelky and securing a
set of the Pelky-GunboatSmith fight
pictures.
"My club is called the Olympia
Athletic Club," said Howe. "We
have an arena with a capacity of 10
000 at Newtown, New South Wales,
which is near the heart -of Sydney. -I
am prepared, to offer 30 per cent of
the gross receipts as an inducement
to the best boxers."
Baker, Howe's adversary, is a
prominent figure in the sporting
world in Australia, and is manager of
the famous Rushcutters bay fight
stadium. He has had a remarkable
athletic career. As a swimmer, he
was second only to such men as Dick
Caville, the fastest member of the
famous Caville family, including Sid
and Turns Caville.
In Rugby football, Baker reached
the highest position that a New South
Wales man can obtain by making the
state team against Queensland and
playing against the British team that
toured Australia in 1904.
As a boxer Baker won the middle
weight and the heavyweight cham
pionships in the amateur class in a
single night. He was a high-class
oarsman and in military athletics
proved to be one of tie best Australia
has ever produced. He held the fenc
ing championship for several years
and was an expert in handling the
sword, lance and bayonet.
"I will interview all the prominent
boxers in this country and am pre
pared to make it worth while for your
best men to visit my country," said